Example sentences of "been [v-ing] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some colleges already undertake their own training of senior management staff and the Further Education Staff College at Coombe Lodge has for years been catering at the national level for the management needs of senior staff by providing residential conferences and workshops , most of which are over-subscribed . |
| 2 | The playgroup , at Cam in Gloucestershire , has been meeting at the United Reform chapel in the village for 10 years . |
| 3 | And PC Week has been looking at the pre-release development kit for Windows NT , shipping this week , and finds that the new NT File System is not yet complete , and neither are the security features that are tied to it . |
| 4 | In Chapters 3 and 4 we have been looking at the major groups of institutions that participate in the financial system . |
| 5 | I have been looking at the following : two very ‘ liquid ’ liquid acrylics are Winsor & Newton Designer 's Liquid Acrylic Colours and the new ACP ArtistColour Professional by Rotring . |
| 6 | At the official press conference today , Brian Horton said he 'd been looking at the young twenty-one year old for quite a while . |
| 7 | Our environment reporter Harriet Ryley has been looking at the changing attitude to what we throw away and how we deal with it . |
| 8 | I have been looking at the Labour party document for health in Scotland , ’ A |
| 9 | Over the last few months I 've been looking at the different types of files you 'll find on a PC — here 's a quick recap to refresh your memory . |
| 10 | So that we 're prepared within the Rural Housing Trust to look at all these ideas , and we 've been looking at the whole question , we feel that this has got to be one for the planners , the planners must be involved in identifying where these problems lie , they 're not uniform , all across the country , er and it 's something that er we therefore need to use the planning er scenario entirely and fully in order to identify where the problem lies . |
| 11 | Alistair and Wayne show they have appreciated that the addition of one tower to the other will create a new tower that is taller than either of its component towers , whereas Matthew and Claire have been looking at the inverse operation — one brick less and the tower is lower . |
| 12 | We 've been looking at the contrasting features of these two . ’ |
| 13 | He had been writing at the big desk , and had come round it to examine the patient . |
| 14 | But just as these new politics have been developing at the local level , so too we need new theories and new concepts to take account of them . |
| 15 | Robin-Anne had been staring at the dark sea , but now she turned her big eyes back to me . |
| 16 | Juventus manager Giovanni Trapattoni confirmed last night : ‘ David has not been playing at the top level recently because of a knee condition . ’ |
| 17 | Adele Venetz , the sister that Wayne always thought of as the quiet one , had been sitting at the big rolling-out table as he 'd entered the restaurant kitchen . |
| 18 | As she had come round the corner of the house from putting her bicycle in the old stable block , Inspector Blakelock had been standing at the front door almost as if he were waiting for her . |
| 19 | You will also receive half your husband 's graduated pension and all of his additional pension if he contributed to SERPS , so long as this would not take your pension above the maximum you could have had if you had been earning at the upper earnings limit throughout . |
| 20 | A tradesman who has been ringing at the front door for several minutes gives up and goes away . |
| 21 | He has been working at the Western Infirmary in Glasgow since 1980 , but has now decided to move to the Royal Liverpool University Hospital in the new year . |
| 22 | But she said Lilian had been working at the old people 's home just down the road . |